Seminar: “Of Fools and Dreams: Visionary Narratives in the Byzantine Tradition of Holy Foolishness”
Svitlana Kobets (Visiting Scholar, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS
Calendar of Events: October 2017
This calendar lists all Institute events, including meetings of the Interdisciplinary Research Seminar, and lectures of interest to fellows, staff, and visitors at the Institute. It includes, where possible, events sponsored by the Centre for Medieval Studies (CMS), the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies (CRRS), and St Michael’s College (USMC). All dates and times are accurate at time of posting. For further information on Institute events, please contact Semira Abdella, Institute secretary (phone 416 926 7142).
The University of Toronto maintains a comprehensive listing of local events. Visitors to the Institute may also wish to consult the calendars posted on the Faculty of Music, the Department of Fine Art, and Hart House websites. To locate venues and individual buildings use the map of the St George Campus.
Seminar: “Nature in Giles of Rome's On Ecclesiastical Power”
Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilans-Universität München)
Common Room, PIMS
Seminar: “The Thought-Experimental Method: Avicenna's Flying Man Argument”
Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Room 418, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street
Lecture: “Alexander and Averroes on the Uses of Dialectic”
Peter Adamson (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Room 220, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Lecture: “Who Will Save Us? The Spread of Muslim Millenarian Identities in the Early Modern Mediterranean”
Abdullah Farooqi (University of Toronto)
Room 403, Carr Hall, 100 St Joseph Street
Seminar: “Loving your Life at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century”
Fiona Somerset (University of Connecticut)
Room 616, Jackman Humanities Building, 170 St George Street
Lecture: “Disability in the Roman Digest”
Peter Toohey (University of Calgary)
Room 205, Lillian Massey Building, 125 Queen's Park
Lecture: “Fire, Siege, and the Jews: Real and Imagined Threats to Water Supply in the Late Medieval City”
Sabine von Heusinger (Distinguished Visiting Scholar, PIMS)
Room 100, Alumni Hall, 121 St Joseph Street
Seminar: “Exemplary Intercessors: Benedictine Women Religious in Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England”
Katie Bugyis (Mellon Fellow, PIMS)
Seminar Room A, PIMS